Cold

Caleb’s soccer season ended this weekend with a forfeited second game of a planned double-header, the first game ending with only the second loss of the season for Caleb’s team.

It was an anticlimactic way to end the season, but mid-November is getting a mite chilly for the fans. And now my Tuesday evenings are freed up. Saturdays, too, theoretically, but it is just in time for the holiday season.

This Sunday we sang Henry Lyte’s “Abide With Me”:

Thou on my head in

Early youth didst smile

My song praised God for setting His favor on me from before the foundation of the world; for causing all things to work together for my good throughout my life; for birthing me into a family that put His name and His word before me from my early youth.

And He smiled on me in other ways as well. Jason always said that having brothers toughened me up; and growing up in New England, where one must stack firewood all summer and shovel the driveway all winter to survive, is no joke. 

But if I hadn’t been so dang cold, and so sick of being so dang cold, I wouldn’t have been driven to move so far south, where I ended up here. And here is where I joined a church that teaches the whole counsel of God, that loves me and my family and disciples me and my family and provides friends for me and my family who point us all to Jesus.

So every time I’m cold now (which is still more of the time than my children can comprehend), I will remember that my propensity to freeze in any weather is what God used to bring me here. Truly He has smiled on my head from my early youth on.